BOMBARDIER JOSEPH HARRISON
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
7TH DECEMBER 1917 AGE 40
BURIED: ST SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, SEINE-MARITIME, FRANCE
In the 1911 census, Joseph Harrison, a married man with three young children, was a dock labourer in New Holland, Lincolnshire, a port on the Humber estuary. In 1901 he had been a gunner with the Royal Marine Artillery based at the shore station, HMS Tamar, in Hong Kong.
His wife, Florrie, chose his inscription.